On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 03:37:29 GMT, Lew Hodgett
wrote:

Mike wrote:

Lew,

When I first started reading this n.g. several years ago you were in
the process of building your, iirc, "bullet proof boat." I take it
from the tense of your above statement that that project is still
'in-process.' Wow, that gives me hope that some of my long-going
projects might eventually be completed.


Building a boat is lot like wrasslin a bear.

As long as the bear wants to wrestle, you wrestle.

Building a boat, you are never done, but every day when you leave the
boat yard, something is finished that wasn't finished when you got there.

Reminds me of that Steinbeck novel "Tortilla Flat", where the guy was
building the perfect boat on shore, and never got it sailing because
he was afraid of the water...